While many people were asleep during the early morning hours of August 24, 1992, I was wide awake. I was living in Miami, Florida, at the time, and from all corners of the house came the sound of demonic winds hideously howling at a roaring pitch. Wind-borne debris smashed into my home's outer walls and metal-shuttered windows, chipping away pieces of roofing tiles and ripping up landscaping.
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